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The EU’s “softball” approach to AI is "naive" and will cause the bloc to lose out to the U.S. and China, Daniel Castro told Politico EU. "It's like any other race: You can have the more ethical race car driver, but if his car is not faster, you are going to lose," he said.

Rob blasted the report’s “flawed” conclusions, arguing that it is natural and beneficial for social media to be heavily consolidated. “The review rightly recognizes that the digital economy is highly beneficial to consumers, but the proposals offered would limit large firms from promoting innovation and maximizing consumer welfare, which are critical drivers of a nation’s competitiveness and growth,” he told The Hill.

"Consumers now benefit greatly from having one Amazon, one Google, and one Facebook," Rob Atkinson told WIRED. "The goal of competition policy should be to enhance consumer welfare, not penalize companies for earning market share and operating at scale—yet that is exactly what the Warren proposal would do."

"I don't believe this will be an out-of-the-mainstream proposal in 2020,” Rob Atkinsontold the Washington Post. Calling Warren’s proposal “appalling,” he said of the tech industry’s ties to Democrats: “Not only is the honeymoon over, but they’re in divorce court.”

Rob Atkinson defended the power of big companies in the technology sector for what he described as benefits to consumers. “The Warren campaign’s call to break up big tech companies reflects a ‘big is bad, small is beautiful’ ideology run amok,” he told the New York Times. “The proposal ignores the fact that many of the services big tech companies now provide free used to cost consumers money.”

"The question is after Brexit will the EU without the U.K. try to compete with China and the U.S. or will it be the EU with a continuing relationship with the U.K.?" Daniel Castro told U.S. News & World Report. "Or will it even be that maybe the U.S., the U.K. and the EU recognize that they should be working together to compete against China?"

Doug Brake told the Agence France-Presse that the proposal is an example of regulatory "overreach" and called for compromise. The bill "doesn't offer the balance a complex new platform like the internet deserves," Brake said. "It would be far better for Congress to thoughtfully design a new section of the law tailor-made for the competitive dynamics of today's broadband market."

Stephen Ezell, said calls to use march-in rights to control drug prices could allow a government entity to retroactively commandeer innovations that private-sector enterprises invested hundreds of millions, if not billions, of dollars to create. “That threat would significantly reduce the pace of biopharmaceutical innovation,” he told Bloomberg Law.